5-fluorouracil in the treatment of scleroderma: a randomised, double blind, placebo controlled international collaborative study.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the efficacy and side effects of oral pilocarpine for the treatment of ocular symptoms in patients with primary Sjögren's syndrome (SS). METHODS:A 12 week, single centre, randomised controlled study was performed. Twenty nine patients were randomly assigned to receive oral pilocarpine (5 mg twice...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Tsifetaki N,Kitsos G,Paschides CA,Alamanos Y,Eftaxias V,Voulgari PV,Psilas K,Drosos AA

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An investigation of cell-mediated cytotoxicity in 22 patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), using both whole blood and purified peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBM) to measure antibody-dependent (ADCC) and phytohaemagglutinin (PHA)-induced lymphocyte cytotoxicity for Chang liver cells, has revealed 2 di...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Wright JK,Hughes P,Gelsthorpe K,Ward AM,Rowell NR

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To determine clinical and ultrasonographic predictors of joint replacement surgery across Europe in primary osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee. METHODS:This was a 3-year prospective study of a painful OA knee cohort (from a EULAR-sponsored, multicentre study). All subjects had clinical evaluation, radiographs ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Conaghan PG,D'Agostino MA,Le Bars M,Baron G,Schmidely N,Wakefield R,Ravaud P,Grassi W,Martin-Mola E,So A,Backhaus M,Malaise M,Emery P,Dougados M

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In 2001, the European League Against Rheumatism developed and disseminated the first guidelines for musculoskeletal (MS) ultrasound (US) in rheumatology. Fifteen years later, the dramatic expansion of new data on MSUS in the literature coupled with technological developments in US imaging has necessitated an...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Möller I,Janta I,Backhaus M,Ohrndorf S,Bong DA,Martinoli C,Filippucci E,Sconfienza LM,Terslev L,Damjanov N,Hammer HB,Sudol-Szopinska I,Grassi W,Balint P,Bruyn GAW,D'Agostino MA,Hollander D,Siddle HJ,Supp G,Schmidt W

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the gastrointestinal safety and efficacy of the COX inhibiting nitric oxide donator AZD3582 in patients with hip or knee osteoarthritis. METHODS:970 patients were randomised (7:7:2) to AZD3582 750 mg twice daily, naproxen 500 mg twice daily, or placebo twice daily in a double blind study. The pri...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Lohmander LS,McKeith D,Svensson O,Malmenäs M,Bolin L,Kalla A,Genti G,Szechinski J,Ramos-Remus C,STAR Multinational Study Group.

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To assess the reliability of the OMERACT ultrasound (US) definitions for the identification of calcium pyrophosphate deposition disease (CPPD) at the metacarpal-phalangeal, triangular fibrocartilage of the wrist (TFC), acromioclavicular (AC) and hip joints. METHODS:A web-based exercise and subsequent patien...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Filippou G,Scirè CA,Adinolfi A,Damjanov NS,Carrara G,Bruyn GAW,Cazenave T,D'Agostino MA,Delle Sedie A,Di Sabatino V,Diaz Cortes ME,Filippucci E,Gandjbakhch F,Gutierrez M,Maccarter DK,Micu M,Möller Parera I,Mouterde G,

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:(1) To compare clinical outcome and symptomatology of rheumatoid cervical myelopathy between patients managed conservatively and surgically. (2) To determine if surgical outcome has improved since the series published from this unit in 1987. (3) To examine the role of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in the ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Hamilton JD,Gordon MM,McInnes IB,Johnston RA,Madhok R,Capell HA

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare three questions on knee pain with respect to determined prevalence and associations with disability and structural change. METHODS:Postal survey to 4057 men and women aged 40-79 years. Knee pain was defined by three questions: (A) "Have you ever had pain in or around the knee on most days for at l...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： O'Reilly SC,Muir KR,Doherty M

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Low sulphate levels in blood may contribute to osteoarthritis by decreasing cartilage chondroitin sulphation. OBJECTIVE:To measure serum levels of sulphate during 3 h of fasting or glucose ingestion after overnight fasts to determine how much sulphate lowering may occur during this period. METHODS:Sera fro...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Blinn CM,Biggee BA,McAlindon TE,Nuite M,Silbert JE

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum C2 activity was measured in 135 individuals drawn from a panel of 418 tissue-typed blood donors. The study group included all donors with HLA antigens A10 and B18. Heterozygote C2 deficiency (C2Dhet) was defined by reference to the range of C2 activity in previously studied obligate heterozygotes. Five donors we...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Rynes RI,Britten AF,Pickering RJ

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Antiphospholipid antibody (aPL) specificity for aPL-related events was evaluated in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). METHODS:A study was carried out on 105 patients affected with SLE comparing the prevalence of lupus anticoagulant (LA) and IgG and IgM anticardiolipin antibodies (aCL) between patients with...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Ghirardello A,Doria A,Ruffatti A,Rigoli AM,Vesco P,Calligaro A,Gambari PF

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to test the hypothesis that the reason for non-response (caused by immunogenicity or not) to a first tumour necrosis factor (TNF) inhibitor defines whether a second TNF inhibitor will be effective. METHODS:This cohort study consisted of 292 consecutive patients with rheumatoid arthr...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Jamnitski A,Bartelds GM,Nurmohamed MT,van Schouwenburg PA,van Schaardenburg D,Stapel SO,Dijkmans BA,Aarden L,Wolbink GJ

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 21-year-old woman developed persistent polyarthritis indistinguishable from rheumatoid arthritis after rubella. The arthritis persisted for approximately 30 months and was associated with high levels of antibody to rubella virus and with rheumatoid factor. The antibody titres declined pari passu with clinical improv...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： McCormick JN,Duthie JJ,Gerber H,Hart H,Baker S,Marmion BP

更新日期：1978-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A family with features of the mucocutaneous ocular syndrome is described. A 4-generation study reveals that the condition has been inherited as an autosomal dominant trait with variable expressivity. Psychiatric symptoms and myalgia have been prominent features peculiar to our patients. ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Berman L,Trappler B,Jenkins T

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Free thiomalate is measureable in the plasma and urine of patients with rheumatoid arthritis receiving sodium aurothiomalate (Myocrisin). Plasma concentrations and urinary excretion of free thiomalate were measured in 8 patients by high-performance liquid chromatography and electrochemical detection. After an initial ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Rudge SR,Perrett D,Swannell AJ

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum immunoglobulins were measured in 122 patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS) during various phases of disease activity and compared to those in 58 healthy subjects. The mean serum IgA was 38% higher in patients (306.9 mg/dl) than in controls (222.7 mg/dl) (P < 0.005), but there was no significant difference in...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Cowling P,Ebringer R,Ebringer A

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A disease activity-guided dose optimisation strategy of adalimumab or etanercept (TNFi (tumour necrosis factor inhibitors)) has shown to be non-inferior in maintaining disease control in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) compared with usual care. However, the cost-effectiveness of this strategy is stil...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Kievit W,van Herwaarden N,van den Hoogen FH,van Vollenhoven RF,Bijlsma JW,van den Bemt BJ,van der Maas A,den Broeder AA

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The aim of this study was to evaluate serum interleukin (IL) 12 concentration in patients with juvenile chronic arthritis (JCA), according to disease subtype, activity, and duration. IL12 has been demonstrated to prime the selective expansion of T helper (Th) cells with a Th1-type pattern of cytokine product...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Gattorno M,Picco P,Vignola S,Stalla F,Buoncompagni A,Pistoia V

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The influence of dexamethasone on interleukin 10 (IL10) production and the type 1 (T1)/type 2 (T2) T cell balance found in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) was studied. METHODS:Peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PB MNC) were isolated from 14 RA patients both before and 7 and 42 days after high dose dexamethasone ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Verhoef CM,van Roon JA,Vianen ME,Lafeber FP,Bijlsma JW

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Circulating immune complexes (CIC) were measured in 4 normal controls and 8 patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) by a polyethylene glycol precipitation (PEG) method during a 24-hour period. In all the normal controls levels fell during sleep and after drinking 1 pint (568 ml) of milk and rose before gettin...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Isenberg DA,Crisp AJ,Morrow WJ,Newham D,Snaith ML

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The RCA alpha block (Regulators of Complement Activation, 1q32) contains critical complement regulatory genes such as CR1 and MCP. This study examined RCA alpha block haplotype associations with both disease susceptibility and diversification of the anti-Ro/La autoantibody response in primary Sjögren syndrome...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Lester S,McLure C,Williamson J,Bardy P,Rischmueller M,Dawkins RL

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Human leucocyte antigen shared epitope (SE) alleles are associated with joint destruction, the presence of anticitrullinated protein antibodies (ACPA) and the ACPA fine specificity repertoire in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). A large variation in joint destruction is seen within the ACPA-positive patient populat...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Scherer HU,van der Woude D,Willemze A,Trouw LA,Knevel R,Syversen SW,van der Linden MP,Lie B,Huizinga TW,van der Heijde DM,van der Helm-van Mil AH,Kvien TK,Toes RE

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The performance of four different assays for circulating immune complexes-the C1q solid phase method, one using protein A and one using anti-IgG, C1q PEG, and the 2% PEG method-were compared in 61 patients with early rheumatoid arthritis followed up for two years. There were weak but statistically significant correlat...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Reeback JS,Silman AJ,Holborow EJ,Maini RN,Hay FC

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The Psoriatic Arthritis Impact of Disease (PsAID) Questionnaire is a recently developed patient-reported outcome measure (PROM) of disease impact in psoriatic arthritis (PsA). We set out to assess the validity in an independent cohort of patients, estimate the minimally important difference for improvement a...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Holland R,Tillett W,Korendowych E,Cavill C,Waldron N,Brooke M,McHugh NJ

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A careful selection of 19 patients fitting the classical description of polymyalgia rheumatica have been examined by arthroscopy and thoroughly screened and followed up to exclude rheumatoid arthritis and other disease processes. Synovitis of the shoulder joint has been observed through the arthroscope in 17 and synov...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Douglas WA,Martin BA,Morris JH

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human extensor tendons of the hand were pulled to rupture, and the torn ends, when observed in the scanning electron microscope, appeared to be knotted, possibly owing to the denaturation of the collagen. This confirmed by fluorimetry assays of both the ruptured ends and the middle unbroken sections of the same tendon...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Minns RJ,Steven FS

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have identified regular thermal patterns over normal knee, ankle, and elbow joints and demonstrate how synovitis affecting these joints may be identified by alteration or loss of the thermal pattern. Sixty healthy volunteers were thermographed on a total of 190 occasions, and 614 out of 618 joints conformed to the ...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Salisbury RS,Parr G,De Silva M,Hazleman BL,Page-Thomas DP

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A controlled study compared 6 months' treatment of 60 patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Half were randomly allocated to treatment with chloroquine 250 mg daily, the other half dapsone 100 mg daily (50 mg/day for the first 7 days) following a one-month run-in assessment period. All patients had active or progres...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Fowler PD,Shadforth MF,Crook PR,Lawton A

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Superantigens are bacterial, viral, or retroviral proteins which can activate specifically a large proportion of T cells. In contrast with classical peptide antigen recognition, superantigens do not require processing to small peptides but act as complete or partially processed proteins. They can bind to major histoco...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Acha-Orbea H

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To identify new susceptibility loci for Behçet's disease (BD), we performed a genome-wide association study (GWAS) using DNA pooling. METHODS:Two replicate pools of 292 Iranian BD cases and of 294 age- and sex-matched controls were allelotyped in quadruplicate on the Affymetrix Genome-Wide Human SNP Array 6...

journal_title：Annals of the rheumatic diseases

authors： Xavier JM,Shahram F,Sousa I,Davatchi F,Matos M,Abdollahi BS,Sobral J,Nadji A,Oliveira M,Ghaderibarim F,Shafiee NM,Oliveira SA

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00